Living and loving in long distance can be a truly painstaking experience. Whether it’s oceans, the military, different time zones or just a couple hours bus ride, being apart for constantly long periods of time from the ones we love is a daily struggle that, if on one side, compensates through a lot of personal space, a lot of passion and fire, and a lot of sweet pretexts to text more than often, on the other hand is utterly consuming, restless and topped with misunderstandings.

Long distance relationships are one of those things similar to the opera: you either really love it and are willing to elbow grease the miles between you with constant work, or you just hate it and never apply for it. We’ve put together a list of the best, most memorable, cute, fun and emotional quotes about long distance relationships. If you’re feeling sad about your boyfriend being miles apart, if you’re in a break with someone you love, or if you just miss the hell out of someone dear, these sweet quotes will brighten up your heart:

“I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell her about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last”- Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe

“ Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”– Thomas Fuller

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”– John Burroughs

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”– Helen Keller

“Forget the miles, forget them. You’ll be there and I’ll be here, and it’ll just be long distance. And that’ll be okay, because quite frankly I’m crazy about you.”- Going the Distance

“Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” – Nicholas Sparks

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” – Paulo Coelho

“I’ll turn my back and walk away, away from the pain. Scream it loud, drown it out by the sound of the rain. Listen up, I’ve had enough all this waiting. I need you more right now than I ever did!”– Hawthorne Heights, Somewhere In Between

“I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he’s listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I’m not there, which is almost all the time.”? Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great”. – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Gandhi

“But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”
– Lemony Snicket

“Long distance relationships are like wind to a fire. Winds put out the small fires, but inflame the big ones!” – Unknown

“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.” – William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XLIII”

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” – William Cowper